New submission from David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ----- Forwarded message from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
I have been playing around with Darcs for a few months now, but my experimentation has been hampered by a bug which manifests as "Couldn't read patch": vnix$ darcs get -v mydarcs:darcs/demo Getting the inventory... Copying patches... Patches copied Repo lazily read Repo local: "False" Fail: Couldn't read patch Sun Nov 26 11:17:01 EET 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Initial check-in I finally managed to track this down to different ssh versions. On the hosts where darcs doesn't work, local administration has installed a commercial SSH version, which doesn't support "sftp -b": vnix$ /usr/bin/sftp -b /tmp/darcsQ5nyCR mydarcs: -b requires an argument greater than zero. vnix$ echo $? 0 I played around with wrappers and strace and found out that the above command line is precisely the one darcs tries to run (modulo the path to the file with sftp commands). At a minimim, it would be useful if the error message could be a little more revealing. Certainly it would also be useful if Darcs could check if the command does anything useful (like it seems to do earlier; it runs "ssh -O an_invalid_command", apparently to see what happens) and bail out with an error message if not. For what it's worth, this particular sftp client (the product suite is called "Reflection for Secure IT"; I believe it is largely compatible with the commercial SSH2 product from SSH.com) seems to work just fine if you use "sftp -B file" instead of "sftp -b file". Actually, you also have to remove the colon from after the host name. While playing around with this, I discovered that a non-zero exit code from sftp would make darcs fail with "darcs failed: (sftp) failed to fetch files." so the fault really lies with the sftp implementation which doesn't fail properly. Still, having a workaround for this would improve the usability and credibility of Darcs. Attached please find a script which I called sftp_darcs which I set my DARCS_SFTP to as a workaround. Thanks for considering this /* era */ ---------- messages: 1309 nosy: EricKow, droundy, era, tommy status: unread title: error with commercial sftp ____________________________________ Darcs issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue362> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
